September 1, 2019 •
Features, Finance, Southern Africa, West Africa •
Kojo •
Comments Off on Japan and African Development Bank announce $3.5 billion to support Africa’s private sector development
On 30 August 2019, Japan and the African Development Bank announced a joint target of $3.5 billion under the Enhanced Private Sector Assistance for Africa initiative (EPSA4). The announcement was made at the 7th Tokyo International Conference on African...
ExecuJet is expanding its Super Versatile Jet capabilities across Africa with the addition of a second Pilatus PC-24 to its managed fleet. ExecuJet is the first aviation company to manage and operate the PC-24 in Africa in 2018. The two new additions will be...
Angola Cables, an Angolan multinational telecommunications company has announced the launch of Angola Cables Cloud Service to the African market. The ‘Cloud as a Service’ platform was launched as a response to increasing demand from companies that...
June 19, 2019 •
People •
Kojo •
Comments Off on Jaime Morais appointed as Angola’s Country Leader for General Electric
Jaime Morais has been appointed by General Electric as the Country Leader for the company in Angola. In addition to this new position, Jaime is also GE Africa’s Government Affairs Leader for Central and Francophone Africa. In this new role, Jaime will...
Africa must digitise its economies, broaden its tax base, prevent further deterioration of fiscal and debt positions, and aim for double-digit growth to achieve the UN 2030 global goals (SDGs), and the AU Agenda 2063 according to the 2019 Economic Report on...
Angola has implemented the recommendations of the IMF’s Enhanced General Data Dissemination System (e-GDDS) by publishing critical data through a “data hub” — National Summary Data Page (NSDP). The page aims to serve as a one-stop-shop for essential...
Zara’s global women’s men’s and kids’ collections will be available online for the first time to customers in Angola, Cameroon, Congo, Ivory Coast, Senegal, Kenya, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Tanzania, Madagascar, Zimbabwe and Ghana,...
The South Atlantic Cable System (SACS) is now on-stream and open for commercial traffic. The new digital information highway is the first and fastest link between Africa and the Americas with the lowest latency and will provide a more direct routing for...
The future is bright for Angola’s economy and investment opportunities. Just recently, government leaders unanimously passed revisions to the country’s Private Investment Law, which supports Angola’s diversification efforts in job opportunities and...
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) announced Resilient Waters, a five-year, $32.4 million project to address severe water challenges facing the Limpopo River Basin and Okavango River Basin communities. Resilient Waters will...
The African continent is rich in natural resources. Some of its 54 countries boast resources like diamonds, sugar, gold, uranium, silver, oil and petroleum. Oil being an invaluable commodity, its production puts countries like Nigeria and Egypt at the top in...
May 9, 2018 •
Mobile and Telecoms •
NetAdmin •
Comments Off on Next generation Monet undersea cable now fully operational
Algar Telecom from Brazil, Angola Cables from Angola, Antel from Uruguay and Google’s Alphabet, have announced that the 10,556 km Monet Cable System connecting Boca Raton, Florida to both Fortaleza and Santos, Brazil is complete, establishing an...
Manifexto, an Angolan startup, offers a web-based news aggregator which aims to provide a one-stop-shop for citizens to access news and information from the full spectrum of state-run, private, international and local news outlets in the country. Manifexto,...
Angola Cables S.A and NEC Corporation have announced that the contract to build the South Atlantic Cable System (SACS), the first subsea fiber optic cable system ever to connect Africa and South America in the southern hemisphere has come into force. SACS is...
While African travellers still value traditional bricks-and-mortar travel agencies, they are increasingly looking for agents that offer online and mobile services as smartphone penetration across the continent increases, according to an independent research...
Like the rest of the global economy, technological innovation needs to be at the heart of Angola’s, or any other African nations’, future economic success. However, the creation of a technologically driven innovation ecosystem within the country cannot...
